Autumn 2016 saw the return of the ‘Assignments’ series which began in the late 1980’s. Members submitted their work for inclusion in an exhibition at the Old Truman Brewery, East London, and in October thousands flooded in to see Assignments 2016. Click below to see the best of British press photography in this year, Assignments 2016: The BPPA Exhibition

Back in 2005 The BPPA put together a project called “Never Mind The Ballots” which was a response to the “most stage managed, spin driven and least visually interesting elections in modern times”. Press photographers faced a month of ten minute photocalls and long frustrating waits whilst trying to find interesting and journalistically significant images. Ten years later the sense of